Eileen A Fradenburg Joy) is a specialist in Old English literary studies[1] and cultural studies[2] and is the publisher and founding director of Punctum Books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion.
in English from Virginia Commonwealth University (1984), an M.F.A.
in Fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University (1992) and a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature[4] and Intellectual History from University of Tennessee (2001) with a dissertation Beowulf and the Floating Wreck of History.
[5] She is the founder of the BABEL Working Group and is co-editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.
[6][7] Joy's research interests[8] also span poetry and poetics, intellectual history, ethics, affects, embodiment, queer studies, object/thing studies,[9] the ecological, post-humanisms, and open access scholarly communications.